Track is my field: Mark Cullen's international track and field website featuring storytelling, commentary, and predictions and event analyses for the Olympics and World Championships. I am writing from the 2018 European Championships in Berlin this week. I'll be reporting from the Diamond League finals in Zurich and Brussels as well. I'm active on Facebook and Twitter: @trackerati.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Oiselle founder and CEO Sally Bergesen has been named one of
the 50 most influential people in running by Runner's World magazine.
We are honored at trackerati.com to count Bergesen as a longtime friend and one
of our earliest supporters.

The Runner's World citation says in part:

"Oiselle is still small fry compared with the giants of
the running industry—with sales at almost $10 million last year—but in opening
its first brick-and-mortar store in Seattle this summer, Bergesen’s showing that
her flock is here for the long haul. She’s a fighter—fearlessly critical of the
likes of Nike and USATF—and she needs to be; as this very grouping
demonstrates, she’s elbowing for space in an industry dominated by male
executives. Her women’s-only apparel brand has fostered a fierce
following..."

Congratulations, too, to Weldon and Robert Johnson, co-founders of LetsRun.com.
Their citation says in part:

"The masterminds behind perhaps the most engaged online
community of runners—particularly those at the front of the pack—have also
earned their stripes as tenacious watchdogs...

Letsrun.com’s homepage
has become an essential bookmark for followers of the elite sport."

Weldon and Robert have been generous with linking to articles on trackerati,
most recently my piece about my meeting with Dennis Kimetto and Wilson Kipsang
in Beijing. Their prominent placing of "A Ride for Robert" helped to
assure the article's success and turn it into one of my top two most viewed
pieces of my first 100 posts.

I am deeply grateful to Sally, Weldon, and Robert for their ongoing support,
and could not possibly be more pleased with their success and their
well-deserved recognition.